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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You know, what was liberating was knowing that the film has no commercial potential whatsoever.

You know, making a film in Polish, which is like automatically,

it's got no hope of distribution outside.

Filmmaker Paobolikovsky made his movie Eda

with the modest hope that it would play at indie theaters in Poland.

Now his film about a young nun in training

who finds that she is, in fact, Jewish, is up for two Oscars.

But first a snapshot of my big Sundance Adventure, and on the banter, we'll talk about what was hot at the festival.

Not the weather. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by Matt Bellany, executive editor of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, Matt, let's start out with Sundance.

I was there.

You were certainly closely observing.

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